Re: startx vs. xdm
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 01:31:51PM -0400, John L. Cunningham wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 09:20:02AM -0800, peasthope@shaw.ca wrote:
> > In the process of trying to make xmonad work I've found
> > that startx fails whereas xdm succeeds. The logs are here.
> > startx fails: http://carnot.yi.org/Xorg.0.log.old
> > xdm succeeds: http://carnot.yi.org/Xorg.0.log
> >
> > My summary of the differences follows.
> >
> > Any insights to direct further studies?
>
> I would only note that startx and xdm don't necessarily look at the same
> startup files. xdm looks for .xsession and startx looks for .xinitrc.
I use startx, and only have an .xsessionrc file. I know it is read
because of the xterm settings.
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